First baseman Casey Haerther went 3-for-4 with two doubles and a three-run homer to lead the UCLA baseball team past Washington, 8-1, Saturday in Seattle.

UCLA starter Charles Brewer (5-4) limited Washington to one run over 6 1/3 innings. Brewer, a sophomore right-hander, gave up one run and five hits while striking out six.

Matt Drummond threw the final 2 2/3 innings to pick up his second save of the season.

The Bruins (21-17, 5-6 Pac-10) drew even in the three-game series. The third game is today at 1 p.m. at Husky Ballpark.

Cam Nobles (3-3) suffered the loss for the Huskies (25-15, 5-6) despite holding the Bruins to only one hit through the first 5 2/3 innings.

With two outs in the sixth inning, Jermaine Curtis walked and Brandon Crawford singled before Haerther, the UCLA cleanup hitter, belted a long home run to left, his seventh of the season, to give the Bruins a 3-0 lead.

UCLA scored three in the eighth and one in the ninth.

No. 5 Stanford 26, USC 5: Toby Gerhart hit two home runs in his only at-bats, recording five RBIs to lead host Stanford (25-12-2, 10-4) in a Pac-10 game. Jason Castro went 4-for-6 with a triple and four RBIs. Every member of the Cardinal starting lineup recorded at least one hit, and they finished with 24 hits. Grant Green hit a home run to extend his career-best hitting streak to 16 games for the Trojans (19-22, 6-8).

No. 11 San Diego 6, Loyola Marymount 4: Junior right-hander Ernie Cho, the only LMU reliever on the day, tossed 5 1/3 scoreless innings, including working his way out of a bases-loaded-and-no-out jam in the sixth inning. But the Lions (20-22, 5-9 WCC) fell at San Diego (34-11, 12-2). Freshman Martin Viramontes (2-4) got the start and the loss for LMU, pitching 2 2/3 innings and allowing six runs and eight hits. Lions sophomore Angelo Songco had a three-run double.

No. 25 Long Beach State 14, Pacific 13: Pacific second baseman Kurt Wideman could not field a hard chopper by Shane Peterson, allowing Jason Tweedy to score the winning run from second in the bottom of the ninth. The 49ers (25-15, 7-4 Big West), who scored five runs in the eighth to take a 13-10 lead, once trailed, 10-6, after five innings. 49ers reliever Nick Vincent give up three runs in the ninth to make it 13-13. Jason Corder hit two home runs, including a three-run shot in the eighth. Pacific is 8-30, 2-12.

Women’s gymnastics

National all-around champion Tasha Schwikert of UCLA won the uneven bars title at the NCAA championships in Athens, Ga.

Freshman Samantha Camuso drove in the game’s only run on a double in the fourth inning as No. 4 UCLA beat No. 7 Stanford, 1-0, in Stanford. Camuso went 2-for-3.

The Bruins (40-5, 12-2 Pac-10) picked up their 40th win of the season. Stanford is 42-9, 7-7.

Freshman Donna Kerr (14-2) earned the victory, while Megan Langenfeld set a UCLA single-season record with her fifth save of the year, throwing 2 1/3 innings of hitless relief.

Long Beach State 2-4, UC Riverside 1-3: Freshman Brooke Turner (22-4) struck out 11 Highlanders in game one for Long Beach State (35-12, 11-3 Big West) in a doubleheader sweep of visiting UC Riverside (18-29, 4-10). Turner’s 11 strikeouts gave her 198 on the season, setting the LBSU single-season record. Bridgette Pagano hit a two-run homer for the 49ers in the second game.

Men’s volleyball

Junior Paul Carroll, a Pepperdine All-American by way of Australia, and senior setter Jonathan Winder helped the Waves (16-10) rally from a 2-0 deficit to knock off BYU in five games in the MPSF Tournament final in Long Beach.

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